nan goldin

SUBVERSIVE SCULPTURES 

Nan Goldin’s new work juxtaposes a selection of images from her personal archive with recent photographs of classical sculptures taken at the Louvre, the Met, and the Galleria Borghese. By blurring cultural hierarchies, she fuses her own mythology with art history, creating visual narratives that recover something long buried in academic art: its transgressive message about the human condition. The result is a series of raw, ghostlike stories that make marble seem to tremble, wounded, almost alive.

She doesn’t simply revisit aesthetic canons — she disrupts them. In powerful diptychs and visual sequences, Nan Goldin places these celebrated statues in dialogue with portraits of her queer community, of friends, lovers, and survivors. Bodies long excluded from the dominant narrative — tender, ecstatic, defiant — suddenly find their reflection in the idealized forms we’ve come to define as “art history.”

This analog exchange between the sacred and the…